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so, he's represented by a trusty?

Quit squirming, as Sandtown has said, all actual nations have mixed economies. Social ownership of an enterprise is socialism, regardless of how much of the economy is socialist, and whether you call...

This makes no sense. Human beings make new things all the time, and once they have the object, they feel a need to name it. this allows them to talk about it.

He's not necessarily in a corner. He could just pull his troops out. That's how the Soviets and the Americans got out of Afghanistan, that's how America got out of Vietnam.

You mean, a great power came in claiming it would bring peace, failed, admitted its failure, and left? Russia has not admitted its failure and left.

There is always prosecutorial discretion. It might have spared Trump if he'd stopped short of all he's done.

We can call it socialist because we now possess the vocabulary to do so. Honestly, are you reading my posts? Did you read Tom's posts about mammoths?

I grew up near a Navy shipyard, across the...

Can't find who built it.

My take is that he's left plenty of evidence of his crimes, but wasn't prosecuted because he was president. Now it's taking some time to catch up, but there's more than one grand jury investigating...

This is getting boring. Of course Franklin never called the post office socialist, the word as we now use it hadn't been invented, and markets had not yet been fetishized to the point where opponents...

I should have said, the Marxists I have personally met.

When Social Security passed, the right called it socialism. When Medicare passed, the right called it socialism. Were they wrong?

Your definition fits Fabian socialism, but not other forms of...

That's the problem with a state religion, isn't it? You get arguments about who is really a Christian. Rick Santorum has already argued that President Obama was not a real Christian.

Didn't Bloody...

I, too, am a fan.

I refer you to post #291. We can refer to things that existed before we invented the term. In fact, we invent the terms because there is something to describe. At the same time, we must be at least a...

That's not an argument, it's a non sequitur. When the United States Lighthouse Service was established in 1789, it was a public enterprise, whereas in England, lighthouses were first established as...

The U.S. constitution does not dictate any particular form of economic organization, although it did allow for the rather primitive form of economic organization known as slavery. It did, however,...

The crisis is about whether we will continue to have the rule of law rather than simple assertions of power. They need to follow all the legal procedures.

Craziness and violence? That's already...

Our ideas about what is obscene are changing. The f-bomb seems less obscene than laughing about the murder of children.

Stealing top secret documents and not returning them when asked is enough to get most of us jail time, even if they can't prove he passed them on to his handlers. Otherwise, the Espionage Act could...

Russia says that's an accident. I guess someone threw away a cigarette and it caused all that damage. Russian cigarettes must be something!

they support him because opposing him is a career-ending act.

Profiles in Cowardice. Those who opposed him early on came to the realization that opposition could end their careers and changed...

Well, if Trump violated the Espionage Act, I'm sure Woodpile will be chanting 'lock him up!'

Maybe they didn't think engineers could do math.

Clinton looks a lot better than Trump. Never expected that when he was in office and eating junk food.

So, why post it here? Does it somehow relate to Trump stealing government secrets and keeping them even after getting a subpoena?

Are you claiming that Obama took 30,000 pages of documents with him when he left the White House and did not return them when subpoenas were issued, or that his library is not yet open? Wouldn't...

The stupid...it burns!

The founders were well versed in the classics, as were Locke and other liberal theorists. They had also studied the history of the Greek city states and the Roman republic. The Greek city states...

Trump will likely live another decade. Once he's in prison, life will be less stressful and his diet will be better.

Have a great one!

Going back a bit further, probably the most famous person to blacken the name of democracy was Aristotle, but there are some major misconceptions about what he said.

In the Politics, he laid out...

Well done.

https://www.oed.com/oed2/00060572

democracy

(dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ) Forms: 6–7 democracie, 6–7 (9) -cratie, 7 (9) -craty, 7– -cracy. [a. F. démocratie (siː), (Oresme 14th c.), a. med.L. dēmocratia (in...

Well played. He's called The Donald's bluff.

So, if Trump treated classified documents worse than Clinton, you'll be chanting 'lock him up,' right?

Yup. The FBI can come take away all the classified documents I've taken from the White House. O, wait...I don't have any!

You don't understand the logic. A democracy can be direct or representative. A republic can be democratic or otherwise. You are trying to make a distinction that I am not making.

It's getting...

You're still doing it. At no point have I said the U.S. is not a republic.

Whether you call it a representative democracy or a democratic republic, it remains both a democracy and a republic. You...

Sorry I can't always give you the attention you crave, but I'm under no obligation to respond to something I did not take issue with.

We, who are about to die laughing, salute you.

The Articles didn't work very well, but that's because they made the central government impotent. It couldn't collect taxes or regulate trade between the states, so there wasn't much point in it...

As more of the monarchy's powers lapse, it becomes more vestigial. Isn't that better than Charles I?

I actually think your system functions as a republic with a vestigial monarchy.

Why is that my problem? I regard both your system and ours as forms of liberal democracy.

You're not the boss of us!

I don't say it's the only difference, but I certainly admire your ability to get rid of a bad leader expeditiously.

In terms of how the British rule themselves, the difference between your...

Now you're pretending I've said things I haven't. I think you know what my point is, but you've avoided addressing it.

I'm sure all ancient sailing craft were at their best with wind behind the beam, and sailing routes would be designed to give them that as much as possible. My point is that the polar might be...

The Norwegian boats in the regatta I referred to would have looked something like this:

http://www.woodenboatfittings.com.au/public/norwegian-03.jpg